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Title of Research:
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Collaborative Systems Thinking: An exploration of the mechanisms enabling team systems thinking |
Advisor/Committee:
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Prof. Deborah Nightingale (Committee Chair); Dr. Donna H. Rhodes (Thesis Advisor); Prof. Annalisa Weigel (Committee Member)
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Degree Candidate:
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Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009 |
Research Interest:
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Exploring and better understanding to contexts in which teams engage in systems thinking. The aerospace industry (along with many other fields) is anticipating large numbers of its ranks to retire in the next 5-10 years. Unless we can determine how to leverage systems thinking at the team level, we stand to loose a large fraction of our systems knowledge with these retirees.
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Other Degrees:
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S.B. and S.M., Aeronautics and Astronautics (MIT ’03 and ’05 respectively) |
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Research Poster: |
Collaborative Systems Thinking: Identifying the enablers and barriers of higher-level systems … |
| Research Presentation: |
Collaborative Systems Thinking: Towards an understanding of team-based systems thinking LAI Research Seminar, February 4, 2009 |
| Conference Paper: |
Collaborative Systems Thinking Research: Exploring Systems Thinking within Teams 2008 INCOSE International Symposium, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 15-19, 2008 |
Ph.D. Thesis:
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Collaborative Systems Thinking: An exploration of the mechanisms enabling team systems thinking Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2009. |
Executive Summary:
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Collaborative Systems Thinking: An exploration of the mechanisms enabling team systems thinking Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2009. |
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